We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI and Oracle HFM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft BI are its intuitiveness and ease to use."
"The best thing about this solution is that it is very user friendly. It is interactive in terms of visualizations. It is very eye-catching, and it attracts users. There are a lot of options to visualize the data in different drafts and views. I have used different visualization tools, and I found Power BI to be more efficient in terms of performance, user-friendliness, and ease of use."
"The Microsoft Power BI app is very good. It's also very flexible."
"The best feature for me is Power Query. I know that probably sounds strange, but you can't do too much with visuals and reports if the backend stuff is horribly dirty and just bad. But for me, that is absolutely fantastic. I can load the data and do the transformation and be able to load it in a useful way. There are tons of connections, which is absolutely fantastic as well. It's been fairly easy, and it's intuitive."
"Microsoft BI is better than most solutions we have. It's pretty easy to conduct analysis with it."
"Provides a full platform (database, ETL, reporting, analysis, and so on)"
"The most valuable feature is shareability, where we can publish work to the cloud and share it with team members."
"The tool is stable."
"The most valuable features are around consolidations, eliminations, conversions."
"It is a very user-friendly software."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility and ease of configuration in terms of testing and formula creation."
"You can bring in data from any source and from multiple sources, and you can consolidate that data in HFM."
"Financial consolidation and reporting tool with good built-in features such as currency exchange and elimination."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The look and feel should be updated in terms of the types of dashboards and graphs that you can produce. They aren't as visual as some of its competitors."
"There is no specific area that I have a problem with. It's just that, with whatever feature you come across, every visual has its own formatting and behavior. What you get in one visual for a feature, you don't seem to get in another."
"Its price could be better. Its licensing cost is very high."
"They asked you to pay if you want to synchronize more than eight times, you would have to go to a Power BI enterprise license, which is much more costly."
"The integration in Microsoft BI could improve for other solutions, such as Oracle DB and PostgresSQL. Additionally, the reporting from the databases to Microsoft BI should be in real-time and the overall performance could be better."
"Power BI shows reports on actual data, not metadata."
"I would like to see some AI incorporated into this solution in the future."
"Integration with artificial intelligence would help. Humans take time to review the data and eliminate errors. Artificial intelligence based on machine learning and understanding can bring the same functionality."
"If there could be data integration between HFM and the accounting software that would be ideal."
"Integration is an area where it lacks and can be improved."
"The complexity is okay. I don't see it as super complex. The solution could have more functionality to make it a little bit more flexible."
"The solution has integration challenges. We need a simple tool that is fool-proof for the data that is submitted not only for consolidation purposes but also for performance management and reporting purposes."
"It's a difficult process to try to edit, configure, or change the business rules that exist and work within HFM."
"In terms of improvement, one challenge with Oracle HFM is the need for technical knowledge in writing SQL syntax for custom extensions."
"The intercompany reporting function in this tool needs improvement, particularly being able to run reports in batches, rather than one at a time."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while Oracle HFM is ranked 7th in Business Performance Management with 14 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while Oracle HFM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Power BI writes "A complete ecosystem with an builtin ETL tool, good integrations with python and R, and support of DAX and Power Query (M languages)". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle HFM writes "Offers flexibility and ease of configuration". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE, whereas Oracle HFM is most compared with Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud, Oracle Hyperion, OneStream XF, CCH Tagetik and Anaplan.
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